When asked whom he would select as the years best Dad, jounalist/author Bruce Kluger had this to say regarding President Bush...

"I guess I'd have to consider the President first. George W. Bush is the man who promised the crowd at the 2000 Republican National Convention to protect American children. "There's nothing more important to the future of the country," he said.

Unfortunately, the numbers tell a different story. After Bush took office, the child poverty rate increased for the first time in eight years, to more than 16 percent. Furthermore, because the President has not spared the rod on his proposed budget, he has left the national child anything but spoiled. Spending has flatlined on a host of child-friendly services, threatening everything from school lunches and Head Start to child care and college grants. Even his own No Child Left Behind Act is underfunded to the tune of $9 billion, leaving local communities to scramble to meet yet one more set of unfunded regulatory mandates. To the wealthy, he's the Tooth Fairy. To kids, the dentist. Sorry, Mr. President. Maybe next year."

Hmm could it possibly be that Americans are finally waking up from the media induced love affair they are in with this President? Is there hope on the horizion that maybe before election day, that the voting public will see that this man is a President of the rich, and for the rich? One can only hope.

"If you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."

"The senator [McCain] has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road" - to reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000.

"It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush" - George W. Bush, in the Houston Chronicle. believe that people actually think this man is President?

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"There is something wrong when religious faiths can be shaken to the core by natural disasters but seem able to reconcile themselves with events such as the war on Iraq which are the result of human folly."
( Muriel Gray )

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I display this ribbon because I feel as if I have entered a period of mourning. Mourning for my loss of trust, and faith. In our election process, and our government. Mourning for the freedoms we have already lost and those I fear we will loose in the near future.
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